My Style Of Practice Reflective Report

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My style of practice is influenced by my academic work and emerging from my daily experiences at my practicum site. The unit I’m assigned to at my practicum site is designed to help teenagers struggling with addiction to achieve and maintain sobriety through the use of research-informed practice. To do this, one of the techniques or skills we use most is to inform the patients in the program what the chemicals or behaviors they are addicted to actually does to their brain. Research had to be a part of figuring out that the addition of certain chemicals into the brain causes the brain to change itself to compensate for the foreign chemical’s presence. For example, studies on a particular chemical’s impact on the brain and what it causes the